Comment by throw0101a

> I can think of more than a few industry segments (aerospace, biotech, etc.) that likely wouldn’t exist or be nearly as lucrative as they currently are without the extensive government intervention that helped build them.

This is the central thesis of Mazzucato:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entrepreneurial_State

Has an entire chapter on the iPhone and its technologies (GPS, touch screens, Siri, etc), which would be applicable to most smartphones.